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The relevance domain consists of qualities of a community responsive educator that is committed to developing curriculum and pedagogy that centers students' daily lives, their communities, their families, and their ethnic, cultural, and linguistic histories. This connection must avoid the trap multiculturalism and the reduction of culture to “trivial examples and artifacts of cultures such as eating ethnic or cultural foods, singing or dancing reading folktales, and other less than scholarly pursuits of the fundamentally different conceptions of knowledge or quests for social justice” (Ladson-Billings and Tate, 1995, p. 61). By centering students, their families, their communities, and their ancestors, a relevant pedagogy acknowledges their stories as assets that provide cultural wisdom and pathways to freedom and justice.

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The purpose of operationalizing the ____________ domain in our curriculum is to work toward the following outcomes: (10 min)

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How does the course that you’re creating operationalize the definition of the __________ domain? (10 min)

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By centering so much of the learning around Baltimore, it becomes relevant to students in the communities that they know and grow up in.

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depth of content (not trivialized)

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Providing the real history by using primary source documents and providing students with the skills to analyze those documents.

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Could create ways for students to connect more to the sources

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Celebrate Baltimore people of color

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Outcomes:  Critical thinkers who use their knowledge and skills to make society a better place

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Students' identities will be affirmed

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Citizens who use real information to think and make critical decisions and take action when necessary

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Students can make strong arguments to challenge mainstream thinking around historical and present issues

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Students will feel empowered through examples in the past and connections to it

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Students will feel as though they have voice and that their opinions and backgrounds matter.

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That their lives matter